August Comte and Positivism

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...began to write again on the wider philosophical questions that had occupied him in the
Logic. In 1865 he published both his
Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and his
Auguste Comte and Positivism, but in both writings his motives were largely political. It was because he regarded the writings and sayings of Sir William Hamilton as the great fortress of...